lacquerer

Koma Kansai decided that his young charge would need to learn to sketch, paint, and create original designs in order to become a great lacquerer.

John Marston was apprenticed to the Jeddo Works of Wolverhampton as a japanner (metal lacquerer).

At least five artisans - a cabinet maker, two painters, a gilder and a lacquerer - worked on each of the small decorative side tables in the main collection.

At age eleven, Kametaro, as Zeshin was called in his childhood, became apprenticed to a lacquerer named Koma Kansai II.

At No. 26, an archway leads into a cobbled passage lined with the workshops of varnishers, a mirror framer, a lacquerer, all of them at work in full view of the street.

In 1851 at age 15, however, John was sent to Wolverhampton to be apprenticed to Richard Perry, Son & Co., tinsmiths and japanners, at the Jeddo Works of Wolverhampton as a japanner (metal lacquerer).

Denys was comparatively uninterested in names and signatures and so was drawn to pieces based on his excellent eye for quality and a search for originality (though not always condition), rather than a keen search for a specific lacquerer or family of lacquerers.

Sometimes the newer versions are seen using a sequin material over the traditional lacquerer; even the new lacquerer is more shiny and does not last as long while the heavier ones do last longer with semi-dull lacquerer.